<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That hour o' night's black arch the keystane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27450]]></link><description><![CDATA[That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32137]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and gain experience they are more likely to adopt Bt corn rootworm, but once they reach about age 48 they become less likely to adopt the technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trend that is certainly being noticed around the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trend that is certainly being noticed around the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mt. Hope and North Kingstown are both physical teams. We'll have a battle if we get there. They did the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mt. Hope and North Kingstown are both physical teams. We'll have a battle if we get there. They did the right thing with the seeds. They did it based on record not division winners. St. Ray's is on a collision course with North Smithfield in the semis. It should be interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and other of your charms. Indeed, not to fatigue myself with enumerating each of them, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35942]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He lived to be 100]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26236]]></link><description><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect icy conditions and drive in such a manner. Don't get out if you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,  In unremitting drudgery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62150]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,  In unremitting drudgery and care!   How many a vulgar Cato has compelled    His energies, no longer tameless then,     To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62150</guid></item></channel></rss>